Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S Essay "The Mind of China" [March 17] is a masterly synopsis; this old China hand is happy to find such erudition coming out of the West. But I believe the present China turmoil to be more a political than a philosophical problem...
...impossibility of characterizing China and the Oriental mind is admirably documented by the seeming contradiction in your Essay. To point out both that one of the basic characteristics of the Chinese mentality is to submit to the omnipresent, inexorable power of the universe and that, at the same time, there is a persistent Chinese belief in the power of the human mind to "move heaven and earth" is perhaps intellectually abrasive to many of us here in the West; yet it is true. You have made a contribution to the elucidation of what you call "the idea of China." However...
...intellectual content of Playboy is at least on a par with the pretentiously overstated content of a TIME Essay. The prurient appeal of an overripe foldout is no worse than the peekaboo enticement of gossip about "People." The humor of a Playboy cartoon is often more sophisticated than the cleverness of TIMEse...
...several days late, but the Nationalists had their figurative revenge and the last word in Taiwan on Chairman Mao as far as TIME was concerned. We feel they also provided an intriguing comment on the Chinese mentality and its preoccupation with form, subjects discussed in this week's ESSAY...
...those 17-hour-day high school students. Tonight's homework: algebra, study for French test, memorize French dialogue, read a chapter on Molière and answer 16 questions, study for history test, write essay on Brotherhood Week, answer four history essay questions, write ballad for English and composition for Creative Writing. Then I am supposed to have time to work on long-range assignments: reading four books in two weeks, working on a term paper and several compositions. Good grief...